Days on the Family Farm: From the Golden Age Through the Great Depression

by Carrie A. Meyer

Book Overview

From the beginning of the twentieth century to World War II, farm wife May Lyford Davis kept a daily chronicle that today offers a window into a way of life that has all but disappeared. May and her husband Elmo lived through two decades of prosperity, the Great Depression, and two World Wars in their Midwestern farming community. Like many women of her time, Davis kept diaries that captured the everyday events of the family farm; she also kept meticulous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816650330
• ISBN13: 9780816650330
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"